The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-10-27
LONG PURSES.
SOMETHING ABOUT RICH AMER
ICAN WOMEN.
Eetty Green with Her 535, 100000 is
Probably the Wealthiest Of Them.
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Hettle Green is credited with being
the most of capitalist of her sex in the
United States. Her wealth would foot
up from s35 ,ooo, 900 to $40, 700, 900,
| suppose. She inherited $4,000, 900,
married $4,000, 900, and has made
the rest by shrewd fnancering.
Another clear headed woman is Miss
Elizabeth Garrett, who must have $40,
100000 or more and who knows how
to take care of it. She was her fathers
private secretary for years and under
stands Baltimore and Ohio stock as
we'll as anybody. Miss Garrett is not
as rich as she would be if she were less
charitable. She never filings money
away recklessly, but expends large
sums with discrimination and good
sense on educational and philanthropic
projects. Mrs. Mark Hopkins is richer
than Miss Garrett, though her neigh
bors, the village folk, are less enthusi-
astic about her than they used to be
before she put up high fence or
Chinese wall about that $4,000, 900
palace of hers at Great Darlington.
Mrs. Hopins is not worth less than
$4,000, 900 Or SIS ,ooo, 900 probably,
and she, too, is noted for her charity.
Mrs. Emily H. Moir, the heir Of the
Morgan property, pays the largest per-
sonal assessment ofany woman in New
: York, and Mrs. Sarah H. Green comes
next to her. Mrs. John Jacob Astor has
tidy sum from s7,ooo,ooo to o,ooo,-
900.
Rich New York widows estimated at
from SI,ooo,ooo to S. 900, 900 abound
and there are sonre hundreds of un-
married women under thirty vino have
from 100000 upward in their own
name. Mrs. W. E. Dodge has invested
her money we'll, and it amounts to
S. ,ooo, 900 perhaps. Commodore Van
derbilt's widow has something more
than double what her husband left her.
Mrs. Robert Goelet and Clarkson Pot
ter's widow are not poor. Miss May
Calender must be worth a million.
The Misses Leary and the Misses Fur
Mss, of Fifth avenue, have large in
comes. Miss Adele Grant, who has
been starring it with Miss Winslow for
foil, has 500, 900 or more. Mrs. Lang
try has got above the SIoo,ooo mark.
Mrs. John Minturn has money. Miss
Grace H. Dodge has q fortune of her
own. Mrs. Frank Leslie must have
$1,000, 900. Mrs. Hicks Lord has
several millions.
A rich New Enylander is Mrs. Sut-
ton, of Peabody, Mass. Her husband
! left her 5000, 900. She has made it
not far from Sc, 1000, 900. She has moi
had happy life, for the one son or
whom she set her heart broke his col
lar-bone half a dozen times falling from
ottomans and chairs, and finally broke
his neck falling from Shetland pony
She has endowed a magnificent refer.
encelibrary room in the Peabody Ii
brary, founded by George Peabody
and her boys picture, framed in gold
hangs on its walls. Mrs. Frederick
Lenoir, of Springfield, is another rich
Bay State woman, owning perhaps
100000. Agassiz' S daughter, Mrs
Shaw, of Boston, is made wealthy b,
her hu,ban Is gifts, and supports grea
numbers of free kindergartens.
One of the wealthiest Baltimore
danes is Mrs. Hutton, daughter Of
Thomas Winans. She has SEC, 900, ,ooe
or more. Mrs. Sarah McEvoy, OF Chi
cago, has half that perhaps. Mrs. C.
H. Mccormick, of Chicago, has about
that much.
The Drexel sisters, of Philadelphia
have some millions apiece. and th,
widow of Tom Scott, the railroad pres
!: ident, had s4,ooo,ooo or S ,ooo, ,oot
left her by her husband. There ar,
dozens of rich Philadelphia widow
and some good catches among tn,
5 heiresses. Miss Ellen Erben. for in
, stance, has big income. Miss Lilliar
Reeves and Miss Helen Rves, lat,
settlers in the City Of Brotherly Love
: have not less than $500, 900 apiece
Mrs. Disston has great deal ofmoney
, Washington is not a city ofrich wo
| men, but there are several who havt
l 81, 100000, some vino have more thai
, that sum. 1t would be hard, indeed
to find a city in the United State
t which has not women whose property
S lists reckon up good sums. Majo
: Burke wife, of New Orleans, and Mrs
| Nicholson, editor and owner of th
Pisayane of that city, are rich South
ern ladies, and Miss Celeste Stauffer
= to whom Tilden left sIoo,ooo is on
S of the prettiest and brightest youn;
: women of that city as well.
S Mrs. Alvinza Hayward, wife of th
F.. San Francisco capitalist, has s., 1000, ,ooe
! which her husband gave her in her owl
= name Her married experience ha
S been a checkered one. She married
iHeyward no long time after he begal